BLOOMBERG: India’s top court handed Hindu group complete ownership of the controversial plot of land in the northern city of Ayodhya, an order that may deepen religious polarisation in the South Asian country.
At stake is control over 2.77 acres – the size of two football fields – in the northern town of Ayodhya, where the razing of a 16th-century mosque by a Hindu mob in 1992 sparked riots that killed 2,000 people, mostly Muslims. The promise to build a grand temple at the Ayodhya site was a key part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist agenda that risks fueling social divisions in the country, which has a history of religious riots.
“It could be a test of India’s ability to clamp down on violence and not allow this to spiral out of control. It would reflect negatively on Modi if empowered citizens used this as an excuse to enact violent measures.” Some legal claims date back to 1950, shortly after idols of Hindu deities appeared inside the mosque.Over the next four decades, both sides went to court over the control of the site and the right to offer prayers there.
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